Containing over 110 selections by contemporary and classic writers, PROSE MODELS is a rhetorical reader that covers the major elements of paragraph, essay and methods of development with an emphasis on Argument and Persuasive writing.

Gerald M. Levin will write the Foreword for God, the Universe, and Where I Fit In.

Organizing the Essay

Topic Sentence, Thesis, and Unity

Obituary

About Men

The Shape of the River

Shooting an Elephant

A well in India

Velva, North Dakota

Main and Subordinate Ideas

Queen Victoria at the End of Her Life

The Blast Furnace

Why Did I Ever Play Football?

Order of Ideas

In an Elevator

The Purpose of Lifting

Marrying Absurd

Beginning, Middle, and End

Mountain Day

Ben & Jerry''s

Transitions

Communication

Mary

Description, Narration, Exposition

Description

The World''s Largest Pile of Scrap Tires

The Buick

Hoyt Street

The Barrio

Narration

Flying

Learning to See

The American Invasion of Macï¿½n

Example

New York

Thursday morning in a New York Subway Station

Discipline?

To What End?

Classification and Division

Kinds of Discipline

The Newspaper

Hoppers

Definition

Monkeying

Crime

The Sooners

"Manly" and "Womanly"

The Underclass

Newspapers

Comparison and Contrast

Televisions and Reading

City People and Country People

The English and the Americans

Digital Literacy

Analogy

What Makes a Writer

The Cosmic Prison

The Education of a Physicist

Process

Sounding

Outdoor Cooking

How the Spider Spins Its Web

Cause and Effect

The Telephone

Why Nothing Works

The Growth of Cities

Matters of Style: Diction

Usage

In the Land of Coca-Cola

Newsweek: Being Cool

A Memo from Dad

Tone

Osu! William Finnegan: Surfing

Imagery

The Rocky Shores

Figurative Language

Watching a Night Launch of the Space Shuttle

Time Is Money

Concreteness

Mortality

Fireworks

Euphemism and Jargon

Learning the Language

Nipping ClichTs in the Bud

Little Red Riding Hood Revisited

Matters of Style: The Sentence

Addition and Modification

Hudson Street

Emphasis

The Steamboatman

Loose and Periodic Sentences

The Turtle

At Tinker Creek

Climax

My Grandmother

Parallelism

Boyhood on the Sacramento Barrio

Antithesis

Nonviolent Resistance

Length

On Matters of Doubt

Argument and Persuasion

Inductive Reasoning

Max into Maximilian

Revenge Theory

More Police, Less Crime? Wrong

The Right to Fail

Wait a Minute

The Warfare in the Forest Is Not Wanton

The End of Education

Who Killed Benny Paret?

Computer Viruses

Statistical Lives

Why save Tropical Rain Forests?

Students and Drugs

Deductive Reasoning

Freedom and Security

Reflections on War

The Limits of Relevance

Final Exams Discourage Learning

Who Deserves the Death Penalty?

Controversy

Supreme Court Ruling on t<$$$>

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